Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1888, Page 18

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: UNDAY APRIL 22, 1888 —-SIXTEE N PAGES. S.L. ANDREWS & New Clothing and Gents’ Furnishing Goods Store Is the Handsomest and Best Appointed Store in the City, COS. Was The Universal Verdict choicest goods that the markets of the season affords. But the point most strongly impressed upon the visitor was the completeness of every department, the whole building being?n%v?d&d with The new house have made every effort to place upon their shelves, Of the Public at the Opening of their New Salesrooms, On the Corner of 18th and Douglas Streets ‘tha ' The Nattiest Styles of Prince Albert and Prince Charles Suits, Most of Them Manufactured by Them- selves, so as to be Fully up to the Wants of the Trade of Omaha. ;‘ For the selection of Childrens’ Suits. This de ohel the many styles of Child’s spared to makeit just what it should be artment is in the front vart of the store, and not pushed away into some dark corner; as is the ilt Suits, Short Pant Suits and Short Pant three m%oe Suits, ca?n be ins Ry pected 1n the very finest lig Our Childrens’ suit department has received special and thorough attention and no expense has been THE LADIES CHOICE PLACE %neral custum, and | We point with justpride to our GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS DERARTMENT and the flattering comments bestowed upon it by all the visitors at the opening I prove that the efforts of the manager of that department will be onpreciated by the people of Omaha. A glance over the whole establishment shows that all thg *, p departments are respectively under the management of men who have made thatline a specialty and whose constant study is to please the public. : orner uougias an 0WN as tne kaiconer Lorner L Ur ks . : y T A VOYAGE TO GREENLAND. PART IV, Written for the Bee by A. G. Jamieson, M. A, Nothing much worthy of note hap- pened till one morning about 4 a. m., tne captain came to my cabin and told " me to goatonce on declk and I would | pee something worth looking at. Upl ran, and sure enough there right pc- '\ fore us lay the large island of Spitz- * bergen, with its seven towering peaks gtruck by the golden rays of the sun, showing off to some advantage their snow-white garments. Now a word about Spitzbergen. It was discovered in 1596 by William Barentz and Corne- lius Rip and was long considered as a part of Greenland until the old name Spitzbergen gained the ascendancy. It can hardly be called an island but rather a group of islands lying between %6 degrees 80 minutes and 80 degrees L 80 minutes north latitude. It is in- | dented here and there by long fjords or bays and has an area of 15,000 square . miles. Some of the peaks run to a | height of 5,000 feet. The sea around this most northern land in the world, has & depth of less than 100 fathoms. Owing to this circumstance the ice rap- jdly accumulates around the shores, and though the glaciers of Spitzbergen do not give origin to icebergs as high as these of Greenland, yet the smaller ice- bergs and pack ice are thick enough to prevent access to the shores, except during the months of June and July. ‘We were lucky, after some narrow es- capes, in being able to land at the foot of a part known as Prince Charles’ Foreland, and were able to view with pur own eyes the products of vegetation, and amongst others picked up several species of fern, moss and crowberry We shot several Arctic foxes (canis I lagopus), which are pure white in color, 4 thus simulating the snow, and owing to ' thigprotective resemblance they man- I age to escapo the attacks of other ani- . mals, They are very like our Pomera- nian dog, differing only in the way they earry their tails, which hang low, while in the case of the dog the caudal ap- ndage is curled up over the back. an does not inhabit Spitzbergen, and the attempts of tho Swedes to winter there have proved failures, owing to that dire disense scurvy. 4 All tho seal-hunting gear was now & laid aside, and preparations wero ¢ ppeedily being made for the capture of d lz: vigreat Greenland whale,” the bal- mena mysticetus, It is sometimes called the rlglyn, whale, or bowhead. Eleven boats eighteen feet long, and for cight parsmen, were equipped with harpoon guns, harpoons, and half a mile of rope, . which was neatly coiled in the bottom L of each boat, 50 as to run out nicely when a whale was struck. The gun is ust a hollow barrel, sowething in the hape of a cannon, and is fixed ona movable screw in the bow of the boat, and is capable of being elevated or de- . pressed, as required, The harpoon is 24 r feet long, and of the finest steel, & terminating at one end in barbs which, & when driven into the flesh of the whaule, on the rope being drawn tight, remain fmpinged &e cruigsed lazily about the shores for fourteen days, butwere not rewarded with even the blast of & whale; so we dropped a muslin bag, or net, which was dragged along the water's surface, with a view to finding out whether any the whale's food was in abundance iu is quarter. Though the whale isa mammal of astounding size, yet it feeds J the most. minute animals, chiefly the invertebrate type, its favorite of fare being a small crustacean about one-fourth of an inch in size. This little creature infests the Arctic seas around Spitzbergen, and where they are plentiful a whale is sure to be at hand. We found little in the net to encourage us, s0 we shifted our ground more into the open sea, and on the first Sunday of July, about 11 a. m., the per- pendicular blast of a whale was seen about a mile off, the spray of which was thrown some thirty to forty feet in the air. On Sundays it was our usual cus- tom to hold divine service in the fore- castle, and on this very day we were all attentively listening to one of Dr. Tul- mage’s famous sermons, viz: “‘Launch Out Into the Deep.” As’soon as the cry of ‘A whal was sung out our religiou thoughts were scattered to the winds. All was now the scene of the greatest bustle on deck, men flying here and ome just out of bed rushing up lad but filled with the hottest en- jnsm, jumping in to man the boa which, (being all equipped and ready for action, were at once lowered. The boats were numbered 1 Away they sped, making as little noise as pos- sible, to the spot where the whale’s blast was last seen. All of asudden, up she came right amid ships between boats number 2 and 6, almost cansizing them, and just as she was disappearing the harpooner of No. 2 pulled his trigger, and then all was smoke and noise which, on subsid- ing revealed to us that his aim had been sure and unerring, and away went the boat scudding along at the rate of twenty miles an hour. In a few min- utes, however, the whale stop- ped its headlong flight, and began drag- ging out rope in a perpendicular direc- tion. On seeing this the other boats lent a hand and more rope spliced on to that of boat No. 2. Quite unex- pectedly the tension slackened, making a lovely curve in the water, thals expos- ing her whole broadside to view, prov- ing her to be a fine female some fifty foct long. Taking advantage of this boats 4 and & fired into, her and we “fast” as the expres- sion is, Thus three harpoons became firmly imbedded in her flesh. Mad- dened by this, she rushed wildly about, hauling the boats in all directions. when unfortunately a serious accident occurred, which nearly cost us the loss of some valuable ~lives, not to mention the total destruction of one hoat and its equipments. t3oat No. 1 was lying off ready to pierce her on appear- ing, when suddenly the brute came right up under the boat and with a mighty swoop of her stupendous tail, sent the boat and its occupants some ten feet into the aiv and smashing it to atoms. The wonder was that none of the men were killed, but on being pickéd up all were found little the worse for their immersion, with the ex- ception of our first mate who, ever, had sustained a dislocati the right shoulder. This, howev was afterwards successfully reduc As a revenge for this damage, boat 3 8 drove its harpoon well into her left flank and soon the strain began to tell upon her—her tugging became less severe and her speed greatly dimin- ished, so that the various boats were able to haul in their lines aud thus keep up the tension, soon she began to bellow like a bull, only much louder, and mingled wi blood came showering up through her wide nostrils. Then was the time for the boats to draw near, Her vital flames wore soon to be d with the brand of death. Up ach man, lance in hand, and in icss than ten minutes the ounce smooth and glossy back now presented an ap- sarance not unlike a huge prickly por- ., being .- all studded ~over the . blood producin shafts deadly javelins. th cunningly with of these lasso was en ast round her tail, and each of the boats getting into line, began to tow their hard won prize to the ship. When alongside, in harmonious unison, one and all vose to their feet.and gave three hearty British cheers which were echoed back to us from the grim snow- clad peaks of Spitzbergen. How strange all this seemed in such a wild and deso- late place! But no time was left for such dreamy sentiment; the hunter’s blc was up and boiling with eager desire for more game. Yet the work of flens- ing and extracting the whale-bone had to be performed. By means of stout ropes she was lashed to the ship’s side, belly uppermost, and fixing spurs to the soles of their boots to prevent slip- ving, the butchers were soon wiring into their work. First the blubber or fat was detatched in large junks. It was one foot thick over the entire body. Next the whale-bone had to be cut out. Now I want to s afew words about whale-bone as it is, even to the student of science, no easy matter to under- stand unless one has actually seen it in its normal and natural position in the whale’s mouth, By whale bone the general public understands the bones of the whale just as we speak of any other animal’s bones. Now it is not bone at all, Suspended from the head or crown bone on each side of the upper jaw are a series of plates, broad where they are imbedded in the gum, but tapering to a point at the other end. They are from ten to twelve feet long in the Greenland right whale and the inner edges are fringed so that when feeding the ani- mal opens its mouth, skims the wate surface, sucking in these minute ani- maleule and crustacea which impinge on the inner edge of these plates and when she thinks shie has enough for one mouthful, she protrudes her tongue and in withdrawing it cleans the inner cdge of these plates to which the food was formerly attached, These plates are called baleen or whalebone but are not bone in the true sense of the word, but merely agglutinised hair or bundles of hair glued together. 1t is worthy of note that their number is sometimes 865, one for each day in the yecar and another point which holds good in nearly every caso is ‘‘that the length of the whalobone bears a constant ratio or proportion to the entire length of the animal itself.,” Thus if the whale- bone is ten feet long the entire length will be forty feet or in the ratio of 1 to 4 Very likely these plates take the place of the teeth for the eenland whale has no true teeth, There are many other whales even larger than the Greenland right whale, but the > of little commercial value, having but small bone and a coarse kind of oil; yet they are of great scientific i The one lately exhibited by & Co. in this city isa splendid specimen of the Finback or *“Physalus antiquor- ium” so called from the presence of a dorsal fin situated much nearer the tail than the head. In every sense of the term itis a v ible monster and were we to place our largest land animal, the elephant,along eide of it it would be like comparing a mouse to a lion. There is one point over which there seems to be a good deal of argument and isapprehension, viz.: ‘*Whether the whale spouts wgter or not.” Now it is an ascertained fact that a whale’s blast contains little or no water---is is merely wucous discharge from the nasal ties. Viewed commercially the Greenland whale is of immense value., Thus a whale forty-five feet long has'twenty tons of fat, which at $2.50 per ton makes | #5,000; it has also.one ton of whalebone, which at $10,000 per ton would make a total of $15,000, a tidy little sum for one animal, The fat and bone are atored carefully away iu the ship’s hold. When brought home the whalebone is chiefly used by the fair sex, and since the innovation of the proverbial ‘‘hussel”’ whalebone should be in great demand and fetch a good pri French women use it 1m~gc\¥ in a powdered state for the pur- pose of beautifying their complexions. At the end of July we managed to cap- ture two others, but the manner of cap- ture being the same as above described I need not again refer to it. During the whole of August our ship got nipped in heice and the power of steam even being unable to war against such an elem nt we were obliged tore- main at anchtrtill such agents as wind and currents should break up the ice and let us fre This was the dullest time in the whole of our voyage, but we waited on patiently and ultimately were able to make a wmove, and steered our course to the westside of Greenland. Here w were visited by a band of Eskimos, who were on a hun ing expedition, accompanied by their wives and families. In height they av- erage about five feet eight inches, and o ° appeared active and muscular, the women pleasing and good-humored, some of them even what you would call pretty, notwithstanding thewr broad flat noses and oval fat cheeks. The men had no whiskers andno attempt even at o moustache. They- were all clad in skins, chiefly of the seal, and the women had fixed on their jackets a fur-lined hood for carrying a baby, and a ridiculous looking tail behind, which was, however, tucked up in the pres- ence of us white men, They erect huts on the ice, the roof of skins, the zalls of ice and turf, but their ideas of sani- tation are very poor indeed. The floor is usually a scene of filth,a pool of blood or adead seal being often to be seen there. There is no room for ventilation, and as a consequencoe the heat becomes unbearable, This state of matters leac to disease, and what 1s known as gallop- ing phthisic or consumption is common amongst these tribes, the cause being attributed to their uncleanly habits and bad ventilation. As regards occupation, they fish and hunt and the name Eskimo is really a corruption of the Indian Eskimatsi which means *‘those who eat raw flesh ame they kill they gencrally e uncooked condition and’ they re good appetites, too, for & of Eskimos will easily dispose of a fair sized senl at one sitting, and in fact some of them will getso lazy as to ir backs and permit their bet- s to feed them with tid-bits of blubber and flesh until they are unable to move, Morally and mentally viewe they exhibit considerable intellgence and are free from many of the vi which are characteristic of such ra as the Polynesians. They like music and are grand hands at mimicry, gam- ble a little, but don’teare much about speculation. When they offer anything for sale they always leave it to the buyer to settle the price. In private lifé their morality is not very high but anything that might give rise to public offence 1s a rare thing amongst them. Feeling that we had secured a good cargo, we put about setting on full steam and steered south on our home- ward voyage, Little else remains to be told. Kvery narrative'has its end, and the warmest greetings ended our voy- age and made us feel we were home at last, with thankful hearts for the prov- idential care which had watched over us in our perilous wanderings. 1 traveled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea, Nor Scotland ! did I know till then, Wuat love I bore to thee.” R A Carpet Car ay beat, you way pound, You may swear, if you will, * But the dust of the ages . Will cling to it still, PIETIES. Evangelists need gumption as well a grace. She—‘‘Do you believ ‘‘Eventual cremation, yi Ohio adventists are getting ready for the end of the world next year. You can trust Ohio people never to get left. Dr. John Hall, of New York, is worth a million and preaches to a congregation worth £400,000,000. Let the camel be greased and have the needle’s eye reamed out. ‘The latest religious crusader is Rev. H. I, Titus, of Newton, Boston. If Peter the Her- mit were alive now the Rev. Titus would make a good aide-de-camp or chief of staff. On a big rock in Saybrook is painted in large green letters: “Repent or you will go to hiell1” apd on another rock three or feet oft is painted, “Use Blank's Extract for Burns.” A can of peaches is sometimes os danger- ous a3 a can of dynamite, Down in Arkansas a colored preacher knocked down a city mar- al with a can of peachies, and was shot and killed, A Maine’s clergyman’s donation party netted §6. The stuff that the guests de- voured cost the poor preacher $28. Now he prays earnestly to be delivered from his friends. On Sunday evening the large congregation at the Methodist church in Cobleskill, N, Y., rushed out at an alarm of fire just as the pa; tor closed his sermon by repeating with em- phasis his text, “So run, that yo may ob- tain,” The burning question in the west is: “Whom _did Cain marry?’ This question was put to a Georgia evangelist, and he promptly replied: “‘Cain married his mother- in-law's daughter.” How simple, and yot how true! Gentlemen (reading the placard on the wall in the barber’'s shop)—Why, how is that, Jim? Shaves, fifteen cents; on Sun- ve cents. 'Why have you begun 'ge extra for Sunday? Jim—Dun jined church, sah, There is a revivalist over in California who is trying to ‘“‘turn people from the er- rors of their way” by preaching to them of the “‘blizzard of the future.” The general impression has been that a hot fire, and not a cold wind, was the thing to be avoided in the future. Jurious typographical errors and verbal combinations often occur even in church pa- . The New York Churchman of last veels reports that ““At St. Thomas’ chu Homestead, Maryland, the Rev. Wil rector, is at'once to be reshingled J e repaired, and bids are now in he cost will be some §600.” Miss Bunker, of Boston—I don't like to speak ill of Penclope Beacon, mamma, be- cause we have always been friends, but I think she is ipjudicious, to say the least. You know how difficult it is to stop Mrs. Grundy when she once begins to talk. Mother—Heavens, dear, what do you mean? Miss Bunker (impressively)—Penclope ap- peared at church last Sunday without spec- tacles. The enjoyment the boys get out of Fast Day, at Hoston, is reason enough for keeping itup. They are full for days afterward of the events of their little world of sports. ‘“Johuny,” says the father to the small boy, who has been mysteriously absent during just those hours of Fast Day when 1t would have been most convenient to have had him rake up the front yard, “Johnny, what was the text?’ To which question the unsuspect- ing Johnny answers: ‘“Seven to three; nine innings.” n cremation?” He— am An international conference of Quaker women is spoken of, A number of girls have been appointed ushers in the Congregational clurch at Ottawa, Kan, A World’s Conference of Young Men's Christian associations will be held at Stock- Lolm in August. The Presbyterian church, ganized in 1758, has 850 presbyteries, 5,323 winisters, 12 churches or parishes, aud 750,000 mewm- s Rev. Reuben Saillene, associate manager of the McAll mission in France, is also pas- 1or of the Baptist church iu Paris, which has 160 mewmbers. Dr, McCosh, of Princeton, Gas been ghosen a delegate from the New Brunswick presby- tery to the Presbyterian general assembly at Philadelphia next month, The congregations of the Presby church, north, and the Presbyterian church, south, at Sedalia, Mo., have decided to unite under the name of the Broadway Presby- terian church. Rev. Dr. Courtney is to be consecrated bishop of Nova Scotia on St. Mark’s day, and his resignation from St. Paul's, New York ctty, will take effect April 30. He will preach April 22 and 29 for the last tim Boston for the present. The Rev. Sum Jones preached at Emi. nence, Ky., with a new companion—the boy preacher, Pasca Porter, The latter is a uvenile wonder, who Las created a sensa- tion wherever he has preached and who is oing to Louisville with Mr. Jones in a few ays. A recent erumeration of the congregations at the leading London churches showed that Dr. Joseph Parker, at the City temple, had morning audience of 1,323, and an evening oune of 2,415, St. Paul’s _congregation num- bered 1,662, and twenty Church of England congregations numbered about 1,000 each. The largest Jewish church held 650 worship- ers, and the Roman Catholic church, wh said to have the largest audience attr ed only 1,092, Mr. Spurgeon, of course, is listenéd to by 6,000 people. - SINGULARITIES. :in A devil fish having a mouth with a lateral spread of five feet was captured not long since near Tampico, Mex. A billy-goat, which for two years past has 1 allowed {o run thestreets of Argentine, Kan., at_will, entered the council chamber Wednesday night through a broken door and demolished all the records of the city and all the city ordinan: Down in South Carolina the other day a Texas pony, for lack of better employment, jumped up the five foot steps of a book store, walled in, went behind the counter, looked at himself n the mirror and walked after the fashion of the. king of I nee without break- ing or damaging anything iu the course of his career, A woodsman felling a tree on the battle- ground of Chickamauga, Tenn., the other day, discove: an unexploded shell in the trunk. It was partly inclosed by over twenty years of tree growth, the size of the tree at ihe time the shell was fired being apparent, Another feature which a woodsman would notice is the luxuriant growth of moss on the side of the tree opposite the shell, indicating the north side of "the tree, and proving con- clusively that the shot was fired from the south, and hence by the confederates, as they held the southern position in the battle, There is a dog in Xenia, O., that still has a vivid remembrance of the destructive flood that visited that town in May, 1550, At the time the animal was tied in the stable and could not get out, when the water camne rush- ing in on him. But he was rescued by some of the boys after the water had reached a depth of s1x feet. While the dog was being rescued the bells rang an alurm to warn the citizens of their peril. Many hastened from the city and took refuge on_ a neighbor- ing bill and the dog went there also as soon as he got out of the water. Ever since that time, Rover, as he is called, takes to the hill just the moment the fire bells ring out, anti- cipating another flood. Last summer Mrs. James McConnell, o Cadiz, Ohio, had a brood of fine youn loys caught in a hailstorm, by which several of them had each a leg broken. The g being high near the house she could only find one of the unfortunates, which she picked up carefully, and, with splinters placed on either side of the fracture, bound up the broken part, A day or two passed, and st d for-, gotten th dent, when \hat was her as- tonishment one aftérnoon to see approaching her in the yard the old turkey with all her with broken legs. These, under rship of the one she had operated upon, came chirping up to her and would not leave until she had bound each ouc's frac- tured leg. o~ A Denver druggist, who for three years has had bis affections played fast and loose with by a facinating female drummer, has written her a stern lettér giving her ten days in which to come and marry him,or else return his many valuable gifts, so that he can con- scientiously commit suicide or—murry an- other women, A PEPPERMINT DROPS. Are women angels! Yes, we say, They are undoubtedly: but that's No reason why they at the play hould wear their wings upon their hats. With two §10,000 players the Boston bas ball club may be considered to be a wel stuffed club. Phil Armour keeps his accounts in a boolg six feet wide when closed. That's a regular lardy-dah ook ! A good many women who have married dry goods clerlks have got two yards of illue sion as a premium. He—Do you believe in_ high license, Farfe nie? She—What kind of license! Marriagg licenses? He changed the subject. ‘Women would make good soldiers, But j§ the eneruy should go into battle with he: shaved, how would the women fight. A Georgia farmer made $100 off an acrq planted in watermelons, and a neighboring doctor made §200 off the same acre, A Canadian lady is suing a man for $2,000 for kissing her. The fellow evidently reald izes now that he has been guilty of a Dlundey buss. Some scamp recently decorated, in the night, the great door of Sing Sing, N. Y., Drison with tho logond “Hahr cut while yoif wait," Atthe poker table, my wasn't that just too funny. Why, I wo all that pot, und I stood on a pair of nines, Miss Manhattan—You generally do,I believes All members of the Stationary Engineers? society recently organized in Baltimore ar@ barred from drinking alcoholic stimulantss They will have to get steam up some othef’ way. DA sash and blind trust that takes in throe fourths of the concerns of that kind in New England and the middle states is said to havd been organized. A blind trust coupled with sashes may have a paneful ending. I see,” said he, “that a Hostou boy hag been fined & and costs for saying ‘Rats’ t an old gentleman.” “Yes,” replied his friend “ithey are very particular about language i Boston; he should have said ‘Rodents.’ Amateur Photographer (to a drownin man—Hi! I say, my friend, hold on for minute before you go down for the last time, You're doin’ the death struggle splendidlyy and I want to make just one more exposurey We have heard a great deal about the reckless extravagance of the far wost, butt we cannot go quite 8o far as to_belicve the yarn that there is a hotel in Deadwood wherd cy change the napkins every timo they nge proprictors, he gas company at Mankato, Minn., 18 said to be actually l0sing money. this ' is true it might recoup its lost fortune by hiring a door-tender and exhibiting itself asa curiz osity. 1t would have a valuable monopoly f that class of exhibits, A petrified Joaf of bread was recently dug up at Acmetonia station, uear Pittsburg, bes ing found at a depth of ‘twelve feet benoath the surface of the earth and beneath an an- cient forest of locust trees, The loaf is now in the possession of Henry Armstrong, who intends to start a railroad restaurant with it If it takes fifteen days to persuade three ox four candidates who must know they have na chance of election to come off a ticket, how long_would it take an administration’ com+ posed of the men on that ticket to inaugurate any reform whatever, even of the mildesf character{ A speciral brakeman has-appeared on the Illinois Central railway, much to the embar< rassment of passengers. Since it refraing from slamming car doors or calling out the names of stations, the ghost should be a vals uable acquisition, 1f a fantom passenger could be secured to take the place of the man who tries Lo cover two seats at once,traveling on that road would be quite a luxury, e Come into the gard For much of the frost has flown, And the spade shall loosen the clod, And afar shall the dirt be thrown} How sweet is the odor wafted abroad ! How long bave the parsuips grown! Miss Chicago— Ol An Absolute Oure. The ORIGINAL ABIETINE OINTMENT is only put up in large two ounce tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands, and all skin eru, tions. Will }mumvcly cure all kinds of pils Ask for the ORIGINAL ABIETINE OIN MENT. Sold by Goodman Drug Co, at ceuls per box-—-by wall 80 cents,